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Under the Hood: Correlation and Collinearity

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By John Lawless, José Granja, Mythili Krishnan, Shelby Lim
| Towards Data Science
Photo by unsplash.com/alinnnaaaa In my last post, I discussed the Gini impurity metric, and how it can assist your work in fitting a decision tree model. Knowledge of mathematics, however, is not limited to interpreting the results and performance of a machine learning algorithm. More importantly, there is no concept of data science that is not worth revisiting or delving more in depth on.
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How ice cream can burn forests

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By Shelby Lim
| Towards Data Science
Photo by Patrick Fore on Unsplash Everyone loves ice cream - but what if I tell you that the more ice cream you eat, the more forest fires there will be around the world? Well, at least data and statistics say so. But is it really true? The answer is: yes, and no. Let me explain. According to the correlational graph between ice cream sales and number of forest fires, it was indeed found that when more ice cream was consumed, more number of forest fires were recorded.
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